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So will I seek out my 5heep, and wW deliver them out of all places where they . have been scattered In the c loudy and dark day. -Ezek. 34 :12.
And they &hall be my people, and I will be th~lr God.-Jer. 32:38, At evening time It ahall be lig t1 t.-Zech. 14:7.
Volume XXXV. Anderson, Ind., U. S. A., Thursday, A ugust 5, 1915. Number 30.
LOOKING BEYOND
The roar of the surf as it beats on the shore;
The sigh in the tree·topa when tempests are o'er;
The blue-purple mountains all bathed in light;
The clouds that are floating in other so bright;
'l'he music that falls on our oars like a tide,
Tllat comes from ihe isleS Where the blessed resiJ.c­'
rhcse all .a:re reflections; but dimly I see
The bliss and the joy that are waiting for 1Ile-
Tl1e sound of the sea may be-gren.t and sublime,
But it ean not. cngngc the heil.rt for all time;
The sigh of the wind i n the t ops of tho trees
May please for a moment of pleasure and ease;
When music has passed, we may linger forlorn;
And bright golden clouds by the tempest are torn:
But, looking beyond all the winds and the sea,
The mountains and clouds, though glorious they be,
By faith we can see to that heavenly shore,
Whm·e glories and pleasures shall be evermore.
-Jas. Turner.
"OUR FATHER"
By Elsie E. Egermeier
David's conception of the love of God led
him to make this comparison : ''Like as a father
piticth his children, so the Lord pitieth them
that fear him" (Psa. 103: 13) . But he could
go no further. He could not· conceive the
thought of God's being his F ather, and he a
son.· Under the old dispensation even those
• whose lives wer.e most ~leasing before the Lord,
were not generally spoken of as being his sons
ancl daughters. Abraham was called the friend
of Gocl; Moses a servant of the Lord; David,
a man after God's own heart, etc. In their
prayers the devout people referred tO t hem­.
selves as being servants and handmaidens.
. Their relationship with God did not. assume a
closer bearing, to their. minds, than that of
Master and servant, or · peradventure,· that of
intimate friendship. The family relationship
with Gocl was to them unknown.
But -with tlie wonderful changes brought
about in the new dispensation, came a change
in t his respect also. J esus, in teaching the
people to pray, said, "After this manner there­fore
-pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven."
Throughout h is entir.e ministry Jesus cont:lnued
to impress upon the minds 'of the people the
fact that God was their Fathei·. ' 'Your F ather
kno\veth what things ye have need of before
ye ask him,'' he said to his followers. Also,
"If ye forgive men their trespasses,-- your
heavenly Father will also forgive you." " It
is your Father's good pleasure to give you tl:e
kingdom." "The Father himself loveth you,
because ye have loved me.''
Oh, the close relationship that exists between
father and son I Ancl we who are saved par­take
of this relationship with God. Wonderful
thought! "Ye are no more strangers and for­eigners,
but fellow citizens with the saints. and
of the household of God" (Eph. 2: 19). ·"As
~many as received 11im, to them gave he power to
become the sons of God, even to them · that be­lieve
on his name" (John 1: 12).
DIVINE JUDGMENT NOW AND HEREAFTER
By E. N. Reedy.
There is a day coming in which Gael has
promcsed to "judge the world in righteousness
by that man whom he hath ordained," Christ
Jesus. Many people accept the doctrine of a
judgment to come as orthodox, and we are look­ing
for a great day, a great judgment day, when
all nations shall stand before God. We have
reacl that all nations, kindred, tongues, and
people shall stand. before him. That will be an
awful clay. When we see several thousa_nd
people congregated together, we say, This is
a large crowd; but on that day the congregation
will not be numbered by thousands, neither by
millions, nor liy b~llions, for no man can num­ber
them: Oh, what a multitude I l\fany of.
them will not even wear a smile, especially none
of those who have lived in sin, loving its bane­ful
pleasures, and hating- Gocl ancl his Son, our
Savior, J esus Christ. · It is pl'omised that the
r edeemed will find this a clay long-expected,
a clay of great release, a glorious clay, a clay of
etemal blessing; for then they will receive their
reward.
I clo not want to call attention only to a clny
afar off, !'lut also to clays nearer at hancl. For
some of our wrong-doing we r eceive judgments
here, that is, "we r eap" here of "what we
so'"lr: ' Sin is of a twofold chaTacter. The same
act may be sin in two or mere respects: first,
against God ; second, against Jnan; and thiril,
against the civil law. Sin aga;nst God is in­finite;
against 'man ancl 'the law is finite.
SIN AGAINST MAN, AND AGAINST GOD -
Finite sin may be satisfied with finite r etribu­tion,
but infinite sin requires infinite satisfac­tion.
For this reason God gave his Son-divine,
immortal, infinite-that through him sin might
have infinite satisfaction.
Almost .all sins ~ommittcd have a doullte bear­ing,
both finite !illd infinite. For instance, a
man steals his neighbor's watch. He has sinned
against God, for God has said, "Thou shalt not
steal''; also against his neighbor, in taking his
neighbor's property. He now has incurred a
double clebt, aside from violating the civil law.
He owes this neighbor for the watch, ancl Gael
for a broken commandment. Suppose he is
brought before the law and is forced to pay his
neighbor for the watch. There yet r emains the
infinite part of the transgression. The punish-­ment
for this pa.rt of the sin, if not repented
of, will be deferred to the judgment. We must
bear in mincl that there are two parties to be
satisfied- God and man. I believe tlmt, in a
measure, people receive judgment here for deeds
done. How often have we heard men say, ''I
believe it is -a judgment sent." The Bible says
we reap what we sow, and I believe ·we do some
of our reaping here. For an example of this
kind,Haman, who prepared a gallows on whith
to hang Mor decai, was himself hanged thereon.
Ancl Dr. Guillotine, who invented the machine
of death that bears his name, was hin: ~nl f
executed by it.
AWFUL JUDGMENT UPON A SCOFFER
I once read of a girl. who-thought to hinder
the good work of a gospel meeting that was
being helcl ncar her home. She appointed a·
Jiight for a dance, ancl spared no pains to-make
it a success, hoping thus to counteract tlle ef­fects
of the meeting. In the afternoon before
the dance was to begin, ~he mounted a horse and
rode throngh the neighborhood, inviting · her
friends to attend. She had r eached the ~ast
house that she intended to visit, ancl was about
to start for home, when she said, " But I must
testify, as the holiness folks say, before I go.
I am glad to ~ay to the glory of the devil that
I am one da·,· nearer .to hel) than ever before.
Pra)' for me. ;vhen it goes well with you. Good­by."
She mounted her horse and r1ashed away.
She hacl gone only a short distance when the
horse -became frightened at some object along ·
the road, and reared up, wheeled nromid, and
threw her on ·a bar heel wire fence, severing her
head from her body. One foot hung in the
stirrup, and the horse trotted t1p to her f ather's
porch, dragging the headless girl who had five
_ minutes before testified for the deviL
We might give a number of instances -in proof

So will I seek out my 5heep, and wW deliver them out of all places where they . have been scattered In the c loudy and dark day. -Ezek. 34 :12.
And they &hall be my people, and I will be th~lr God.-Jer. 32:38, At evening time It ahall be lig t1 t.-Zech. 14:7.
Volume XXXV. Anderson, Ind., U. S. A., Thursday, A ugust 5, 1915. Number 30.
LOOKING BEYOND
The roar of the surf as it beats on the shore;
The sigh in the tree·topa when tempests are o'er;
The blue-purple mountains all bathed in light;
The clouds that are floating in other so bright;
'l'he music that falls on our oars like a tide,
Tllat comes from ihe isleS Where the blessed resiJ.c­'
rhcse all .a:re reflections; but dimly I see
The bliss and the joy that are waiting for 1Ile-
Tl1e sound of the sea may be-gren.t and sublime,
But it ean not. cngngc the heil.rt for all time;
The sigh of the wind i n the t ops of tho trees
May please for a moment of pleasure and ease;
When music has passed, we may linger forlorn;
And bright golden clouds by the tempest are torn:
But, looking beyond all the winds and the sea,
The mountains and clouds, though glorious they be,
By faith we can see to that heavenly shore,
Whm·e glories and pleasures shall be evermore.
-Jas. Turner.
"OUR FATHER"
By Elsie E. Egermeier
David's conception of the love of God led
him to make this comparison : ''Like as a father
piticth his children, so the Lord pitieth them
that fear him" (Psa. 103: 13) . But he could
go no further. He could not· conceive the
thought of God's being his F ather, and he a
son.· Under the old dispensation even those
• whose lives wer.e most ~leasing before the Lord,
were not generally spoken of as being his sons
ancl daughters. Abraham was called the friend
of Gocl; Moses a servant of the Lord; David,
a man after God's own heart, etc. In their
prayers the devout people referred tO t hem­.
selves as being servants and handmaidens.
. Their relationship with God did not. assume a
closer bearing, to their. minds, than that of
Master and servant, or · peradventure,· that of
intimate friendship. The family relationship
with Gocl was to them unknown.
But -with tlie wonderful changes brought
about in the new dispensation, came a change
in t his respect also. J esus, in teaching the
people to pray, said, "After this manner there­fore
-pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven."
Throughout h is entir.e ministry Jesus cont:lnued
to impress upon the minds 'of the people the
fact that God was their Fathei·. ' 'Your F ather
kno\veth what things ye have need of before
ye ask him,'' he said to his followers. Also,
"If ye forgive men their trespasses,-- your
heavenly Father will also forgive you." " It
is your Father's good pleasure to give you tl:e
kingdom." "The Father himself loveth you,
because ye have loved me.''
Oh, the close relationship that exists between
father and son I Ancl we who are saved par­take
of this relationship with God. Wonderful
thought! "Ye are no more strangers and for­eigners,
but fellow citizens with the saints. and
of the household of God" (Eph. 2: 19). ·"As
~many as received 11im, to them gave he power to
become the sons of God, even to them · that be­lieve
on his name" (John 1: 12).
DIVINE JUDGMENT NOW AND HEREAFTER
By E. N. Reedy.
There is a day coming in which Gael has
promcsed to "judge the world in righteousness
by that man whom he hath ordained" Christ
Jesus. Many people accept the doctrine of a
judgment to come as orthodox, and we are look­ing
for a great day, a great judgment day, when
all nations shall stand before God. We have
reacl that all nations, kindred, tongues, and
people shall stand. before him. That will be an
awful clay. When we see several thousa_nd
people congregated together, we say, This is
a large crowd; but on that day the congregation
will not be numbered by thousands, neither by
millions, nor liy b~llions, for no man can num­ber
them: Oh, what a multitude I l\fany of.
them will not even wear a smile, especially none
of those who have lived in sin, loving its bane­ful
pleasures, and hating- Gocl ancl his Son, our
Savior, J esus Christ. · It is pl'omised that the
r edeemed will find this a clay long-expected,
a clay of great release, a glorious clay, a clay of
etemal blessing; for then they will receive their
reward.
I clo not want to call attention only to a clny
afar off, !'lut also to clays nearer at hancl. For
some of our wrong-doing we r eceive judgments
here, that is, "we r eap" here of "what we
so'"lr: ' Sin is of a twofold chaTacter. The same
act may be sin in two or mere respects: first,
against God ; second, against Jnan; and thiril,
against the civil law. Sin aga;nst God is in­finite;
against 'man ancl 'the law is finite.
SIN AGAINST MAN, AND AGAINST GOD -
Finite sin may be satisfied with finite r etribu­tion,
but infinite sin requires infinite satisfac­tion.
For this reason God gave his Son-divine,
immortal, infinite-that through him sin might
have infinite satisfaction.
Almost .all sins ~ommittcd have a doullte bear­ing,
both finite !illd infinite. For instance, a
man steals his neighbor's watch. He has sinned
against God, for God has said, "Thou shalt not
steal''; also against his neighbor, in taking his
neighbor's property. He now has incurred a
double clebt, aside from violating the civil law.
He owes this neighbor for the watch, ancl Gael
for a broken commandment. Suppose he is
brought before the law and is forced to pay his
neighbor for the watch. There yet r emains the
infinite part of the transgression. The punish-­ment
for this pa.rt of the sin, if not repented
of, will be deferred to the judgment. We must
bear in mincl that there are two parties to be
satisfied- God and man. I believe tlmt, in a
measure, people receive judgment here for deeds
done. How often have we heard men say, ''I
believe it is -a judgment sent." The Bible says
we reap what we sow, and I believe ·we do some
of our reaping here. For an example of this
kind,Haman, who prepared a gallows on whith
to hang Mor decai, was himself hanged thereon.
Ancl Dr. Guillotine, who invented the machine
of death that bears his name, was hin: ~nl f
executed by it.
AWFUL JUDGMENT UPON A SCOFFER
I once read of a girl. who-thought to hinder
the good work of a gospel meeting that was
being helcl ncar her home. She appointed a·
Jiight for a dance, ancl spared no pains to-make
it a success, hoping thus to counteract tlle ef­fects
of the meeting. In the afternoon before
the dance was to begin, ~he mounted a horse and
rode throngh the neighborhood, inviting · her
friends to attend. She had r eached the ~ast
house that she intended to visit, ancl was about
to start for home, when she said, " But I must
testify, as the holiness folks say, before I go.
I am glad to ~ay to the glory of the devil that
I am one da·,· nearer .to hel) than ever before.
Pra)' for me. ;vhen it goes well with you. Good­by."
She mounted her horse and r1ashed away.
She hacl gone only a short distance when the
horse -became frightened at some object along ·
the road, and reared up, wheeled nromid, and
threw her on ·a bar heel wire fence, severing her
head from her body. One foot hung in the
stirrup, and the horse trotted t1p to her f ather's
porch, dragging the headless girl who had five
_ minutes before testified for the deviL
We might give a number of instances -in proof